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jimmy the saint

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 41

archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

One of my biggest pet peeves is calling a company and being tossed into a conversation with a friendly robot voice that can never seem to understand what I say.  Usually by the third time I am shouting NO!, I tend hang up and see if there is another way to get ahold of someone.  I am fairly new to archlinux, but so far I have registered at the forum, waited for an email, clicked the link and posted a few times.  Then I noticed a  mistake in the wiki that I wanted to correct, so I registered, waited for the email, clicked the link and added two letters to the page.

Now I am trying to get help on the IRC channel.  I am no IRC expert, but I have received help from or conversed with the Ubuntu community, the iphone dev team and a few others and found the experience easy and pleasant.  At the #archlinux channel, however, I find myself being forced to have a conversation with a machine.  I had to learn to register a nickname and password. 

Then I tried to register.  I'm already logged in!! Yay!  NO.. I need to wait for an email.. that hasn't come.  I can't ask a question or say hi, like I could in every other channel, oh no.  Instead I sit here waiting watching everyone else have happy conversations, waiting for an email, wondering why nicksrv doesn't want to talk to me.

**Edit:  Mistakenly put #archwiki instead of #archlinux

Last edited by jimmy the saint (2009-04-16 02:12:36)

SamC

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From: Calgary

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 611

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Re: archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

You put in your email wrong, or something of that nature. However, you should take this up with freenode.

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

Heh.  Wait until you meet phrik.

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jimmy the saint

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Registered: 2009-04-10

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Re: archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

This makes me feel better.

>nickserv< identify ****
-NickServ- You are now identified for tru19p.
<tru19p> hello?
* #archlinux :Please register with services and use the IDENTIFY command (/msg nickserv help) to speak in this channel

I registered with the right email address.  I double and triple checked that.

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

At the #archwiki channel, however, I find myself being forced to have a conversation with a machine.  I had to learn to register a nickname and password.

FTR, it's the Freenode network (not ArchLinux) that enforces this requirement in order to reduce spam and other abuse.

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s3kt0r

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Registered: 2009-01-20

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Re: archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

IMO, the forums are much more "user-friendly". And I use IRC a lot.

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Berticus

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

Re: archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

Odd... I don't ever remember registering with an email address... Besides, anybody using the freenode server has to register. I don't think there are any bots on the actual Archlinux channel.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: archlinux IRC doesn't seem to like me

This is a whine, and should not continue. Registration is required in #archlinux. If you don't want to register, don't use IRC.

It's that simple.

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